Special geometry and the swampland

DOI10.1007/JHEP09(2020)147zbMATH Open1454.83157arXiv2004.06929MaRDI QIDQ1995162FDOQ1995162

Sergio Cecotti

Publication date: 18 February 2021

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In the context of 4d effective gravity theories with 8 supersymmetries, we propose to unify, strenghten, and refine the several swampland conjectures into a single statement: the structural criterion, modelled on the structure theorem in Hodge theory. In its most abstract form the new swampland criterion applies to all 4d $mathcalN=2$ effective theories (having a quantum-consistent UV completion) whether supersymmetry is emph{local} or rigid: indeed it may be regarded as the more general version of Seiberg-Witten geometry which holds both in the rigid and local cases. As a first application of the new swampland criterion we show that a quantum-consistent $mathcalN=2$ supergravity with a cubic pre-potential is necessarily a truncation of a higher-$mathcalN$ extsc{sugra}. More precisely: its moduli space is a Shimura variety of `magic' type. In all other cases a quantum-consistent special K"ahler geometry is either an arithmetic quotient of the complex hyperbolic space $SU(1,m)/U(m)$ or has no emph{local} Killing vector. Applied to Calabi-Yau 3-folds this result implies (assuming mirror symmetry) the validity of the Oguiso-Sakurai conjecture in Algebraic Geometry: all Calabi-Yau 3-folds $X$ without rational curves have Picard number $ho=2,3$; in facts they are finite quotients of Abelian varieties. More generally: the K"ahler moduli of $X$ do not receive quantum corrections if and only if $X$ has infinite fundamental group. In all other cases the K"ahler moduli have instanton corrections in (essentially) all possible degrees.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.06929

zbMATH Keywords

differential and algebraic geometryeffective field theoriessupergravity models

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Calabi-Yau manifolds (algebro-geometric aspects) (14J32) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60) Supergravity (83E50) Effective quantum field theories (81T12)

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